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How long does your Christmas season last?

Do you start the day after thanksgiving or the first day of advent? Do you leave decorations up until epiphany?

I am thinking about doing mass and family on Christmas and saving the gifts for Epiphany. This way we can focus more on Jesus during Christmas. I can't get out of family parties, and I don't want to so we will still open a few gifts on Christmas from grandparents as such.

a couple hours after t-day dinner, i start shooing family out of my house..and my dh knows we're headed to the storage building. by the time sunday afternoon rolls around, the house is decorated, the outside lights/decor is up, and i've redone some of it 3-4 times, even in inclement weather. we're somewhat new to the presbyterian church, so i'm still learning the 'seasons' at church-not really sure how they do anything at this point. but i love playing xmas music/carols starting around november all the way through the end of january. we usually attend xmas eve mass at dh's home church..which is fabulously beautiful! very old stone/rock cathedral-type, smallish and more intimate, with lots of stained-glass 'stories', high-beamed rafters covered in greens. i get goosebumps just thinking about it.